Evaluation of dynamic and static electrical characteristics for the DY8 and YI8 process gallium diodes in comparison to the DI8 process boron diodes.

• Main Author: Dhoopati, Swathi
• Other Authors: Grubbs, Albert B.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: University of North Texas 2006
• Subjects: Electric current rectifiers.; Semiconductors.; Diodes.; rectifier; boron diodes; gallium diodes
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5614/

A rectifier is an electrical device, comprising one or more semiconductor devices arranged for converting alternating current to direct current by blocking the negative or positive portion of the waveform. The purpose of this study would be to evaluate dynamic and static electrical characteristics of rectifier chips fabricated with (a) DY8 process and (b) YI8 process and compare them with the existing DI8 process rectifiers. These new rectifiers were tested to compare their performance to meet or exceed requirements of lower forward voltages, leakage currents, reverse recovery time, and greater sustainability at higher temperatures compared to diodes manufactured using boron as base (DI8 process diodes) for similar input variables.